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Talking StrategyS5E12: Toussaint Louverture and the Strategy of Dynamic Adaptation with Professor Charles ForsdickProfessor Charles Forsdick tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, who led Haiti’s successful and highly adaptive slave revolt against the 18th century’s great powers. Toussaint Loverture was a force of nature. A former slave, he led the revolt in Saint Domingue between 1791– 1802 that resulted in Haitian independence. As a self-taught military commander, he was ever present in the fight, adapting his tactics, employing psychological warfare techniques and harnessing the island’s tropical diseases to degrade the French occupying forces. A man of contradictions, he was variously a Spanish monarchist and a French republican who playe...2025-03-1832 min
Translation and Medical HumanitiesConversations Across the Translational Medical HumanitiesThe speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields. At the end of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference (https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/translation-and-medical-humanities.html) at the University of Oxford, Marta Arnaldi, Charles Briggs, Charles Forsdick and John Ødemark reflect on its legacy.
Marta Arnaldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/marta-arnaldi
Charles Briggs is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the U...2024-01-0312 minTranslation and Medical HumanitiesTranslation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and VisionsThe speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities independently and collaboratively, as separate areas and as a unified field. Marta Arnaldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/marta-arnaldi
Eivind Engebretsen is Professor of Health Humanities, University of Oslo, Circle U Chair of Global Health, and Executive Chairman of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE): https://www.med.uio.no/sustainit/english/people/adm/eivinden/
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New Books in Canadian StudiesCharles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury, "Transnational French Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2023)On the 16th October 2023, I met with Claire Launchbury and Charles Forsdick to discuss the recent publication of Transnational French Studies (Liverpool UP, 2023), a collection of essays that draws attention to the diverse objects of study and methodologies that can be brought to bear on French cultural production. This is the latest in the “Transnational Modern Languages” series published by Liverpool University press. The series furnishes frameworks and concrete examples of how to study languages and cultures through their interactions, rather than as isolated national traditions. It is especially of note that Transnational French Studies has been conceived as a handboo...2023-10-241h 03
New Books in French StudiesCharles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury, "Transnational French Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2023)On the 16th October 2023, I met with Claire Launchbury and Charles Forsdick to discuss the recent publication of Transnational French Studies (Liverpool UP, 2023), a collection of essays that draws attention to the diverse objects of study and methodologies that can be brought to bear on French cultural production. This is the latest in the “Transnational Modern Languages” series published by Liverpool University press. The series furnishes frameworks and concrete examples of how to study languages and cultures through their interactions, rather than as isolated national traditions. It is especially of note that Transnational French Studies has been conceived as a handboo...2023-10-241h 05
New Books in Caribbean StudiesCharles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury, "Transnational French Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2023)On the 16th October 2023, I met with Claire Launchbury and Charles Forsdick to discuss the recent publication of Transnational French Studies (Liverpool UP, 2023), a collection of essays that draws attention to the diverse objects of study and methodologies that can be brought to bear on French cultural production. This is the latest in the “Transnational Modern Languages” series published by Liverpool University press. The series furnishes frameworks and concrete examples of how to study languages and cultures through their interactions, rather than as isolated national traditions. It is especially of note that Transnational French Studies has been conceived as a handboo...2023-10-241h 03
New Books in African StudiesCharles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury, "Transnational French Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2023)On the 16th October 2023, I met with Claire Launchbury and Charles Forsdick to discuss the recent publication of Transnational French Studies (Liverpool UP, 2023), a collection of essays that draws attention to the diverse objects of study and methodologies that can be brought to bear on French cultural production. This is the latest in the “Transnational Modern Languages” series published by Liverpool University press. The series furnishes frameworks and concrete examples of how to study languages and cultures through their interactions, rather than as isolated national traditions. It is especially of note that Transnational French Studies has been conceived as a handboo...2023-10-241h 03
UNESCO RIELA: The sounds of integrationE55 - APF Fellow Bertony Louis sur la poésie, Haïti et sa vie a GlasgowDans cet épisode, poète et bénéficiare d'une bourse de la fondation Artist Protection Fund Bertony Louis parle avec Prof Charles Forsdick (Université de Liverpool) et Rachel Douglas (Université de Glasgow) de sa poésie, la situation actuelle en Haïti et sa nouvelle vie à Glasgow. Pour plus de détails, consultez la page des notes https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration2023-08-0934 min
Le Paris NoirEpisode 9 : Les Jacobins Noirs avec Laurent Dubois et Charles ForsdickPour ce 9ème épisode, je vous ai concocté une conversation XXL avec deux chercheurs, spécialistes de la Révolution haïtienne : Laurent Dubois et Charles Forsdick. Nous nous penchons sur Les Jacobins Noirs de CLR James.Au début de la Révolution française, Saint-Domingue est la plus grande colonie du monde et le plus important marché de la traite européenne des esclaves. Au mois d’août 1791, les esclaves entrent en révolte. Pendant douze ans, ils mettent tour à tour en déroute les Blancs de l’île, les soldats de la monarchie française...2023-05-101h 39
UNESCO RIELA: The sounds of integrationE25 - The Invention of Multilingualism with David Gramling part 2In this second episode of our series The Sounds of Good Books, Alison Phipps, Charles Forsdick and Tawona Sitholé continue their conversation with Prof David Gramling from the University of British Columbia, about his latest book The Invention of Multilingualism. Read the full show notes on our website: bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts2022-01-1849 min
P3 HistoriaToussaint Louverture – ledaren för den haitiska slavrevolutionenPå kaffe- och sockerplantagerna i den franska kolonin Saint Domingue dagens Haiti exploateras hundratusentals slavar. Men motståndet gror och år 1791 inleds världshistoriens största slavrevolt. Nya avsnitt från P3 Historia hittar du först i Sveriges Radio Play. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Julia Grauers – programledareDavid Rune – producent & manusbearbetningEmilia Mellberg – manusPablo Leiva Wenger – scenuppläsareJulia Öjbrandt – ljuddesign och slutmixMedverkar gör också Carl Wilén, doktorand vid Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap vid Göteb...2021-12-2357 min
UNESCO RIELA: The sounds of integrationE23 - The Invention of Multilingualism with David Gramling part 1In this first episode of our new series The Sounds of Good Books, Alison Phipps, Charles Forsdick and Tawona Sitholé enter into conversation with Prof David Gramling from the University of British Columbia, about his latest book The Invention of Multilingualism. Read the full show notes on our website: https://bit.ly/RILA_Podcasts2021-12-0742 min
Raising the BarEverything you need to know about Scholarships at Gray's InnScholarships – always a burning question for students looking to join the Bar. In this episode Elena speaks to David Forsdick QC, Chair of the Gray’s Inn Scholarships Committee and Tony Charles, Director of Education at Gray’s Inn.
How important is academic background? What does a good scholarship application look like? What are the chances of being awarded a Gray’s Inn Scholarship? How important is the application form? Have you heard about the Gray’s Inn Residential Scholarships? Who sits on the interview panel?
Tune in for the answers to these and other questions a...2020-10-1926 min